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13 days agoIf the other traffic is already correlated to your IP, then what additional info does an ICMP echo leak?
If the other traffic is already correlated to your IP, then what additional info does an ICMP echo leak?
ICMP doesn’t reveal any personal details. As opposed to say when you visit with the web browser where you can be fingerprinted, and perhaps have that tied to the rest of your browsing history or real world identity.
BOFH: hooked up the mains to the doorknob and asked a luser to bring their laptop over for personal attention and repair.
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In other news Exteter University is holding it’s 24th annual “Hulk Hogan RULES Day”…
You can’t do that, you’re committing copyright infringement! Change game
to mygame
though, and you’re golden.
But this user plans to leave ping running all the time to check that their own Internet connection is working.
Either way, at any given time there’s tons of traffic leaving your network, it just means that software is active, not that a human is active. On top of that, Cloudflare probably isn’t selling the fact that an ICMP ping was received at their DNS server directly to spammers quickly enough for them to act and put an email at the top of your inbox, assuming that spam isn’t caught by a spam filter first.